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The Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change (MOECC) recently issued an Order to the City of Mississauga (a City of 800,000 immediately west of Toronto) to remediate street sweeping it had distributed to a number of private and public enterprises as “clean fill”. Testing by the MOECC determine the street sweepings had high concentration of arsenic and other contaminants that could be deemed dangerous to human health.

In the Order itself, the MOECC refers to its protocol titled Management of Excess Materials in Road Construction and Maintenance, dated July 22, 1994, allows for the management of street sweepings (called roadsweeping material and defined as “sand/gravel/vehicle grit mixture resulting from winter maintenance operations, but does not include litter and abandoned material components”) in three ways:

Street Sweeping Disposal Practices date back to 2004

The events leading to the MOECC issuing the Order goes back to 2012. At that time the MOECC learned that the City of Mississauga had deposited Waste Street Sweepings as fill material on various properties located in southern Ontario.

Mississauga conducts street cleaning each spring, with road sweeper trucks, to collect materials that may have accumulated over the winter. In 2012, The City of Mississauga indicated to the MOECC that between 2004 and 2011, waste street sweepings were eventually brought back to the Mississauga works yard on Mavis Road in Mississauga where they were deposited and accumulated.

Prior to 2004, the City of Mississauga sent street sweepings to an approved landfill site. After 2004, the City of Mississauga informed the MOECC that it processed street sweepings by screening out debris, such as litter, and then deposited the material on properties including residential, commercial and agricultural properties upon the request of the owners of such properties.

In February 2012, Mississauga provided to the Ministry a report dated June 20, 2011, prepared by a consultant to assist Mississauga “in determining disposal options for the material collected as street sweepings”. The report, based on the chemical testing of two samples collected on June 6, 2011 of street sweepings from Mississauga Mavis Work Yard, concluded that “Based on the chemical test results, in our opinion the subject material may be shipped to any registered landfill site licensed to receive this category of waste”. The report did not recommend sending the street sweepings to any other location or that the sampled street sweepings could be reused for any other purposes.